Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today and that you’re ready to jump into a book review as today I am bringing you my review of Iron Flame by rebecca Yarros.
Blurb/Synopsis:
“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” —Xaden Riorson
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.
But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.
Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
My Review:
This is the second book in the series so I will do my best to not spoil anything from this or the first book, Fourth Wing, in this review.
The first thing I will say is I gave this book five stars because of the way it made me feel. I loved being back with these characters and in this world, with the dragons. Honestly, I love the world so much I had dreams about being part of it and I bought clothing to dress as Violet when I go to Comic Con in London in July. Leather trousers, ME, in leather trousers. If you know me you would think pigs would fly before I’d wear something like that. So, that is why it was a five star. It made me feel at home. Now, technically, I would not rate it a five star. It was definitely longer than it needed to be by about 200 pages I would say, as much as I loved getting to explore places outside of Basgiath and getting more information on the politics and state of the world, the relationships between places and all the plot points expertly woven into the novel, it was too long, it felt long. I enjoyed that there were some parts that weren’t all action and let us have some downtime almost with the characters that was a nice change of pace and not something you get a lot in fantasy books, especially the second in a series. Also, it did feel a bit rushed in terms of plot like maybe the author wasn’t fully sure where she was going with it but let me say, the plot twists! They were good. They were so good I went straight into Onyx Storm. Review coming Friday…
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